All-Optical 10-Gbps Packet Switching by DBR-MMI-BLD All-Optical Flip-Flop

Author

Takeda, Koji ; Takenaka, Mitsuru ; Raburn, Maura ; Song, Xueliang ; Barton, Jonathon S. ; Nakano, Yoshiaki

Author_Institution

Res. Center for Adv. Sci. & Technol., Tokyo Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

2006

Firstpage

9

Lastpage

10

Abstract

All-optical packet switching has been demonstrated using DBR-MMI-BLD all-optical flip-flops. Single-mode lasing flip-flop output switched 10-Gbps optical packets through cross-phase modulation in all-optical MZI switches. Error free operation has been achieved with 1.8-dB power penalty

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; distributed Bragg reflector lasers; flip-flops; integrated optoelectronics; laser modes; optical bistability; optical logic; optical modulation; optical switches; packet switching; phase modulation; semiconductor lasers; 10 Gbit/s; DBR-multimode interference-bistable laser diodes; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; all-optical MZI switches; all-optical flip-flop; all-optical packet switching; cross-phase modulation; error free operation; power penalty; single-mode lasing flip-flop output; Flip-flops; Nonlinear optics; Optical bistability; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical packet switching; Optical signal processing; Optical waveguides; Packet switching; Pulse amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Semiconductor Laser Conference, 2006. Conference Digest. 2006 IEEE 20th International

Conference_Location

Kohala Coast, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9560-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISLC.2006.1708060

Filename

1708060